Financial Controller

☛ What can you do for us that other candidates cant?

☛ Give me an example of a high-pressure situation?

☛ Give an example of a time you successfully worked on a team.

☛ What kind of personality do you work best with and why?

☛ What do you like and dislike about the job we are discussing?

☛ Describe a team experience you found disappointing. What could you have done to prevent it?

☛ Give an example of a time when you assisted a co-worker to enhance their work skills?

☛ What do you like least about your job?

☛ What was the toughest problem you had to solve?

☛ Tell me what are the first 5 things you would do if you got this position?

☛ To what extent do your grades reflect how much you learned?

☛ What were your favorite courses in school?

☛ What have you done to support diversity in your unit?

☛ What support training would you require to be able to do this job?

☛ What major challenges and problems did you face?

☛ What do you think this position involves.

☛ What's most important to you in a new position?

☛ How do you evaluate your ability to handle conflict?

☛ Have you ever had difficulty working with a manager?

☛ What have you been doing since your last job?

☛ What do you think you can bring to this position?

☛ What is the difference between a good position and an excellent one?

☛ Do you know anyone who works with our company?

☛ How would you describe your work style?

☛ What are you looking for in terms of career development?

☛ Example when you went above and beyond the call of duty.

☛ Are you planning to continue your studies?

☛ What research have you done on our firm and our industry?

☛ What does trust mean to you?

☛ Would he or she recommend you for another job?

☛ What qualities do you find important in a co-worker?

☛ What are your lifetime goals?

☛ Which of your jobs was the best?

☛ What two or three things are most important to you in a job?

A prospective employer or hiring manager will typically use the interview to give a broad idea both of what the position entails, and of what skills, qualities, and personality they’re looking for in a successful candidate.

But interviewers tend to be coyer about how precisely a new hire’s performance will be evaluated in the early-going – that is, what specific, concrete benchmarks they’ll need to reach in order to meet expectations and survive beyond the probationary period.

As we have discussed elsewhere, the key to getting a job is not a dry recitation of experiences and accomplishments, but a dynamic demonstration of what you can do for the person and organization with which you are interviewing.

To succeed in marketing yourself, put yourself in the place of the hiring manager. What can you do for them in the future? How can you make their lives easier? How can you make them more successful?

Ever since my first paper route at age 10 I’ve been doing something to keep myself busy and earn money. Back then, it was obviously about earning some spending money. What I didn’t realize was that I was actually starting the journey of establishing what I liked to do and how I fit in to the grand scheme of things. I then worked as a junior computer tech in my last 2 summers of high school. It was here that I discovered what I was passionate about and what I wanted to do. I enrolled in college to get my degree in computer sciences, and I have been working around technology ever since.

Provide an interview answer that demonstrates your self awareness and insight.

Finance jobs demand the ability to work well under pressure. The interviewer wants to know whether you are able to perform under stress and cope with difficult situations. Show that you can stay calm and are able to plan to reduce stress.

If the interviewer asks about why you quit a certain job, or why there are gaps in your resume, what should you say? This short video addresses that difficult question.

There are many valid reasons that interviewers are unlikely to hold against you in assessing you as a job candidate. However, presenting your reasons awkwardly or unconvincingly definitely is bound to raise questions about you and damage your chances. Be sure that you rehearse your explanations in accordance with these suggestions.

Discuss a relevant achievement, the challenges you faced in getting there and what made you successful. Discuss why it was important to you, making the reasons relevant to the finance job you are interviewing for. Emphasize how your achievement can be translated into success in this position.

Beyond the preliminary deliverables, it’s important to understand what the employer expects from the winning candidate over the longer haul – after their first, full year, for example, once all the attendant kinks have been worked out and the learning curves mastered.

With the employer painting the picture for you, you’ll be able to visualize how all your skills and experiences could help you reach that landmark.

You want to be paid as much as you can, while the hiring firm wants to get your services for as little as they can. Do not undersell yourself and your abilities, but do not make your demands so high that that you are rejected out of hand as a potential hire if you would settle for less.

Your ability to identify key issues and detect problems from relevant information is key in your answer. Your skill in breaking down, organizing and analyzing information is under the spotlight with this interview question.